Tortured Logic

It’s been two weeks since Osama bin Laden was killed.Â Â Missing from theÂ news is how enhanced interrogation techniques led to his demise.

The most controversial is waterboarding.Â The declassified Top SecretÂ memo detailing all 10 enhanced interrogation techniques is on our website.

Critics haveÂ called it “torture.”Â It’s no such thing.Â Navy pilot Ken Kropkowski has been waterboarded three times, “Waterboarding is so temporary, it’s so quick . . . There’s no pain actually so I don’t see how you can equate that with torture . . . There’s no real trauma, there’s no real lasting effect.”

Kropkowski is one of thousands – yes, thousands – of military personnel – men and women – who have been waterboarded duringÂ survival training.Â CIA interrogators learned waterboarding from the military.

OnlyÂ three terrorist detainees were ever waterboarded.Â It’s okay for servicemen and women but not terrorists?

I believe Osama got what he deserved.Â But how can the presidentÂ call waterboarding “a dark and painful chapter in our history” and yet order anÂ unarmed man to be shot dead?